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SlaveryWhat was life like as a slave?Life as a slaveover 32% slave manages were canceled by masters because of sellingslaves could be killed for murder, burglary, arson, and assaulting a white personin the south, black people usually weren't allowed to attend church serviceshalf of all slave infants died during their first year of lifewhen a slave was 12months, his/her mother could be sold awayConditionsusually received 2 shirts, 2 pairs of trousers, 1 jacket, 1 pair of socks, 1 pair of shoes, 1 overcoat, and 1 wool hat per yearate cornmeal, salt, herrings and 8lbs of pork/fish per monthhouses were usually wooden shacks with dirt floorsbeds were usually made of straw grass and ragsCharity Anderson101 years oldlived in Mobile, Alabama on wood yardwomen worked in the mill supplying fuel to river boatsslaves treated wellpunishment was being torn limb from limb by the dogs or whipped unmercifullyTempe Durham103 years oldChatham County, North Carolina on master's plantationthe plantation raised corn, wheat, cotton, and tobaccothe women spun, wove, and dyed clothwomen not treated as well as menpunishment was brutal whipping until they bled bucketsClayton Holbert86 years oldlived in Linn County, Tennesse on master's plantationthe plantation raised corn, barley, and cottonthere were 100 slaves on the plantationthey had to weave their own clothes, butchered their own meat, and made their own maple sugarFountain Hughes101 years oldborn a slaveCharlottsville, Virginiagrandson of slave owned by Thomas Jeffersonleft with nothing after slavery's endhomeless and sneaking around places for warmthMaria Jackson79 years oldlived in Notasulga, Alabama on a farmshe worked in the fields with her fatherpicked cotton, corn, and tobaccoworked until she was marriedwent and lived in Athens with her husband and 14 kidsMary Reynoldsover 100 years oldBlack River, Louisianawas born into slaveryowner a physician and plantershe witnessed horrific beatingsshe worked in weather so cold that her hands bledRichard Tolerlived on 500-acre farm in Campbell County, Virginiawhen he was younger he had tended to the cows and calveswhen a little older he hoed fields and was a black smithhis master's sons brutaly whipped young girls for pleasure without letting their father know and threatened all the slaves that if they told, they would hunt them down and kill them with their bare handsSarah CaseyHailey StaffordMurphy SmalleyHunter WilliamsBrice TarnoCurtis StaufferBy: